Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: REXX command standards Message-ID: <2229@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 15 Nov 90 20:10:55 GMT Lines: 36 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In , cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes: >>>>>> On 14 Nov 90 15:23:38 GMT, jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson) said: > >> Does anyone in the Amiga Developers Association know if there is anything >> being done to standardized AREXX commands? > >Could somebody enlighten a novice? What would standardizing the AREXX >commands buy you? The basic AREXX commands (those that aren't sent out of >AREXX) are already standard and the commands sent to application ports would >have requirements based on the application. It would be nice to have standardized commands for basic functions of common types of programs. Any set of similar function programs will have a lot of functions in common. All editors need a command to place text on the screen, to position the cursor by line, column, and perhaps by character count from beginning of file. They all need to be able to read the contents of the line the curesor is on, the word it is on, perhaps the paragraph it is on, the contents of the 'cut' buffer, and so on. Deleting a character, word, sentence, paragraph, marked block are very nice to have, and most editors allow it. The advantage of having a 'common command set' for Arexx calls to the editor is that the user need not rewrite every script to fit the editor he is using. It means that I can write a script for one editor, give it to someone else using a different editor, and the other person can likely use it with little or no modification. -larry -- The only things to survive a nuclear war will be cockroaches and IBM PCs. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+